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Garbage Growth

Garbage Growth

Garbage Growth is a short incremental trash game about collecting people's trash, bananas and even babies, to make money and pollute the world even more. Hire rats, grow your pollution, and make everything worse!

Released Jun 23, 2026 Developer apepatrickdev Platforms Windows IdlerIncrementalAutomationCasual2D
View on Steam ↗ $4.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

91.6%positive367 reviews
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Solid little game. Takes about an hour to 100%. Dev said he was going to be adding more so I'll probably play it again when there is more to do. As it is now it is a little steep for the price IMO but that's really my only complaint.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“honestly, for what you pay for it, good game, i managed to get a solid couple hours out of the game, i am not disappointed i reccomend it for someone looking for a good time killer, and there will be updates and new skills and units to buy so should get really crazy :) keep up…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“How dare those bikers throw babies... Without a helmet, come on, that's not safe.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

14achievements
92.8%median completion
61.7%rarest: Very cool skill tree
98.8% of players 98.6% of players 98.1% of players 98.1% of players 96.0% of players 95.4% of players 94.3% of players 92.8% of players 92.2% of players 92.1% of players 89.5% of players 89.5% of players 63.4% of players 61.7% of players 98.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
98.8%First Trash — Collect your first trash
98.6%Poops are everywhere — Unlock dog pollution
98.1%Babies? — Unlock bike pollution
Rarest badges of honor
61.7%Very cool skill tree — Complete the skill tree
63.4%Wow you found me! — Unlock the hidden skill
89.5%The end.. or is it? — Unlock the end skill

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$4.99current · sampled 2026-09-26 21:12 UTC
$4.99lowest since tracking began2026-09-26
US4.99 USD
EU4.99 EUR
UK4.49 GBP
Australia6.95 AUD
Canada5.99 CAD
Japan655 JPY
Brazil19.49 BRL
China22.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$3.3 Brazil Japan Canada Australia US EU UK≈$6.0

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 09, 2026
Milking the Moon - Sneak peek 2

7K SALES First off, thank you so much for 7k copies sold! I'd have never thought I’d reach this milestone Your support means a lot to me! :D Here's some stuff from the moon update i've been working on

Jun 26, 2026
We are going to the moon - Sneak peek 1

TIME TO POLLUTE THE MOON Proud to announce that the next upcoming area will be the moon :D Still a work in progress! I want to release this update as soon as possible Also pushed a tiny patch yesterda

Jun 25, 2026
Artificially Extending Playtime - Patch 1

The best way to extend a citizen's working life is to increase the cost of living which is why i'm doing the same with skills costs and spread better the pacing, playtime (from CHAD to END) went from

Jun 23, 2026
Garbage Growth is OUT

Garbage Growth is out right now! [img src="

Jun 20, 2026
Release Date + 1k wishlists!

1k wishlists! Garbage growth just hit 1 000 total wishlists! Thank you so much i'd have never reached this milestones without the content creators covering the game, i'm really grateful to them! Relea

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresCasual, Indie, Simulation
Player tagsIdler · Incremental · Automation · Casual · 2D · Simulation · Economy · Relaxing · Management · Nature · Arcade · Choices Matter (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Custom Volume Controls · #category_playable_at_your_own_pace · Playable without Timed Input · Save Anytime · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , Simplified Chinese * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Indonesian * , Japanese * , Korean * , Polish * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Russian * , Thai * , Traditiona…
Achievements14
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-8350 or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 10/11 compatible GPU DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 300 MB available space